BAK & IE7

[OliverG]

Several have mentioned they receive an Operation Aborted error when trying to view BAK with IE7, which we'd like to ultimately troubleshoot and fix.

If there's anyone who can provide the same report it'd be helpful to know what verion of IE7 you're running.

I've removed IE8 on my XP testing machine and installed IE7 version 7.0.5730.13 and the site loads fine.

If anyone else can provide any feedback, it'd help us out in troubleshooting and fixing this bug.

[kitecrazy]

I'm using 7.0.5730.13 on xp64 (desktop) and regular xp home (netbook) and both experience the operation aborted error.

I have to use firefox for BAK...which is the only thing I use firefox for.

I think earlier today I had come across someone on the Ikitesurf forum mentioning that they were having problems as well.

[Kevin_]

Allright, exciting topic for my first post....

I'm using Internet Explorer Version 7.0.6001.18000 with Vista and get the following error message:

Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site:
http://www.bay.....etc
Operation aborted

The site basically does not work for me. I get the same message on an older desktop running IE 6 on XP. I suppose I just need to upgrade. Site does work fine on my phone.

Hope this helps.

[average_male]

At work I get the abort error, but at home with IE7 V 7.0.5730.13, I get a javascript error at line 61 which has the following line of code:

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  <script type="text/javascript">
	MediaObject.init({'flash':"10,0,22,87",'windowmedia':" blaa, blaa, blaa...);
  </script>

Every reference to 'MediaObject' is not resolving, maybe some .js source files are not updated or using a relative path rather than an absolute path, as in:

src="https://www.bayareakiteboarding.com/plu ... jax_1.3.js"
and/or
src="/media/mootools.js"

At any rate, to take a defensive programming approach, update the above 'MediaObject.Init' call with something like this:

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if(MediaObject && typeof MediaObject.init == 'function')
{
   MediaObject.init(({'flash':"10,0,22,87",'windowmedia':" blaa, blaa, blaa...);
}

However, there may be an issue with advertisers injecting their own javascript

[kitecrazy]

To add to average_male's note about advertisers injecting javascript, on slower connections, its possible to stop part way through loading the BAK home page before some of the adds load and it will not error. This is not consistent though.

I'm not sure if its because its actually windy and people are away from their computers or if its because of this error; it seems like there is less traffic on the forum this season.

[OliverG]

Maybe it's been windy, etc., but new users sign up almost daily and the stats show as much activity as ever or more.

But this ie 6 & 7 bug has been a major annoyance. I'm narrowing it down to the conflicting javascript libraries, but as I do 99.5% of all work on Mac, I need to get my pc running XP Pro to be able to reproduce the error using ie7, as my Dell running XP Pro and IE7 version 7.0.5730.13 displays the site fine.

As soon as I can reproduce the error, a fix should come soon.

Average_male, thanks for your feedback. Can you check for the errors again?
Thanks for your feedback guys, it helps!

[Stefaans]

didnt work on IE6 or IE7 for me. Firefox rocks.

[average_male]

Today I didn't get any errors, however, browsing the source of the home page, I didn't find the "MediaObject" object as I did yesterday. There must be some sort of rotation advertisement scheme on BAK.

Also, to ensure you aren't getting any errors on IE running on XP (in some cases javascript errors are suppressed) take a look at the bottom right of the browser. If an error occurs there, will be a \!/ icon, double click that icon and it should give you the actual error message.

[OliverG]

Today I didn't get any errors, however, browsing the source of the home page, I didn't find the "MediaObject" object as I did yesterday. There must be some sort of rotation advertisement scheme on BAK.

Also, to ensure you aren't getting any errors on IE running on XP (in some cases javascript errors are suppressed) take a look at the bottom right of the browser. If an error occurs there, will be a \!/ icon, double click that icon and it should give you the actual error message.

No MediaObject errors because I've removed the javascript component that it was part of.

All ads are only .gif or .jpeg images so no ad scripts handle any of those. Random rotation of ads are invoked by a totally separate software component with only html codeplaced in the site to display the images, handle links, etc.

Today on my PC I installed XP SP3 upgrading from SP2, reinstalled IE7 and still no errors! But I will check the '!' icon for errors. All I need to do is have a machine that gives the error, then I can troubleshoot and fix...

[average_male]

seems to be working just fine now.

Thanks for making this site IE7 friendly. :)